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American Education Week
Secretary Duncan meets Montgomery Blair High School students We want to recruit the next generation of excellent teachers to lead our nation’s classrooms was the clear refrain for the day when...
View ArticleTeacher Quality and Our Future
Opinion pieces on the importance of teacher quality appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post over the weekend. “If I were a cub reporter today,” writes New York Times op-ed columnist Thomas...
View ArticleNational Blogging Day
There’s been a great conversation happening online today on the National Day of Blogging for Real Education Reform. I appreciate how many educators have taken time to share their ideas thoughtfully...
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Award-Winning Teachers Offer Duncan Advice on Reform
Secretary Duncan calls on a "remarkable group" to help him take advantage of the "huge opportunities" that exist in this country to take education to the next level. "Education may be the one thing—for...
View ArticleDuncan Meets with Tribal Leaders
In advance of today’s White House Tribal Nation’s Conference, the U.S. Department of Education hosted a town hall event with more than one hundred tribal leaders and representatives from across the...
View ArticleFrom Private Industry to Successful Science Teaching
Cross-posted from the TEACH.gov blog. Thirteen years ago I made a huge leap, from running a small and moderately successful software development company to teaching high school physics. My family and...
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i3: Change for Education Paradigms
Speaking at the Aspen Institute’s Education Innovation Forum and Expo on January 20, Secretary Duncan discusses roadblocks to education innovation with Aspen President and CEO, Walter Isaacson. “It’s...
View ArticleEducating Our Way to a Better Economy
Secretary Arne Duncan joined Labor Secretary Hilda Solis today to announce a historic $2 billion investment in helping meet the President’s goal of having the “most-educated, most-competitive workforce...
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Paying for College: American Opportunity Tax Credit
Secretary Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner, and D.C.'s Wilson High School Assistant Principal Charlette Butler We cannot underestimate the impact of the American Opportunity Tax...
View ArticleEducation Dashboard Brings Greater Transparency to Data
At an education stakeholders’ meeting today, Secretary Duncan announced the launch of an online tool designed to help educators, parents, students, and policy makers “have a much more transparent...
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Secretary Scores in Minnesota Science Classroom
Secretary Duncan with students at Crystal Lake Elementary School U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s professional basketball experience is well known, but Lakeville, Minnesota students were...
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Senators Join Duncan to Discuss Fixing NCLB
Secretary Duncan was joined by by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) in a national press call on January 26. The Senators,...
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Fixing NCLB for Rural Schools
Secretary Duncan teamed up with John Hill, director of the National Rural Education Association, during a call to both journalists from rural communities and education writers who cover rural schools...
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Rural Charter School Makes Education Real for Students
The community of Walton, Kansas, has embraced a charter school as a tool for designing an educational program that is meaningful in their distant rural town. Using a charter school grant from the U.S....
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The Next Generation of Teachers
Cross-posted from the White House blog. President Obama and I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. It is the one factor that can prevent a person’s zip code from...
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Michigan Class Queries Cunningham on ED Policy
After speaking with Tracey Van Dusen's class, Peter Cunningham engages "Rising Scholar" students brought by Dr. Victor Kennerly and Tyrone Weeks to a presentation of Ann Arbor Public Schools'...
View ArticleConference on Labor-Management Collaboration
On Tuesday, Feb. 15, 150 school districts from across the United States will meet in Denver for a conference to address this question: in education, how can we transform the relationship between...
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At Labor-Management Conference, “C” Is for Collaboration — and More
DENVER—If we had a dollar for every time someone used the word “collaboration” at the Department of Education’s labor-management conference that wrapped Wednesday, the Department might not have needed...
View ArticleDeadline for the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge is March 11
Cross-posted from the White House blog. The Race to the Top Commencement Challenge is back and we’re asking public high school students from across the country to tell us about ways their school is...
View ArticleTools to Help Students Become Financially Literate
Join educators and students across America to participate in the National Financial Capability Challenge, where high school students can learn about how to take control of their financial futures....
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